THE TELEGRAPH: Boarding schools have entered an ''Age of Measurement'' where only results are valuable, the headmaster of Eton has suggested.
Areas of schooling that cannot be measured are seen as worthless, Tony Little said.
Addressing the Boarding Schools' Association (BSA) annual conference in Torquay, Mr Little said: ''It is a sad thing, it seems to me, that where once men were able to speak of sweeps of history such as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason, we now seem to inhabit the Age of Measurement.
''Our day-to-day lives are circumscribed by a variation of the McNamara fallacy: only that which can be measured has worth, if it cannot be measured it can have no worth. This kind of thinking cuts to the heart of everything I believe in as the head of a boarding school.'' >>> | Tuesday, May 04, 2010
THE TELEGRAPH: France to build £3.8bn super university: France is spending 4.4 billion euros (£3.8bn) on a new modern university campus designed to rival Cambridge and Harvard as one of the world's best. >>> | Tuesday, May 04, 2010
